Africa
1. On your blog post your reactions to what you read and what you saw. How about 3-4 sentences.
Reading this article, I felt glad for Nick Brandt finding his specific passion of shooting photos of Africa wild life, and using photography to support animal rights. Brandt's photos are really amazing when you take in the fact that he does not use a telephoto lens and had to get close to each elephant, cheetah, and lion he photographed. Brandt has many photos that feel dynamic and rare, each with a specific action happening, or instead of an action, a "portrait" of the animal.
2. Do a google image search for Nick Brandt, find your favorite photo and post it on your blog.
3. Describe it and tell me why its your favorite.
This photo feels so pleasant. The value of dark to light is really cool, and the elephant has this "glow" that makes this photo my favorite.
4. What rules of photography are evident in the photos you selected, be sure to explain the rule to me?
The Rule of Balance is the most evident rule in this photo. The ground is not lopsided, it is flat and leveled, and there's no border mergers that affect the photo.
Rule of Avoiding Mergers is also evident, sue to no border mergers cutting off the elephant's legs or tusks)
Do a google/wikipedia search for Nick Brandt
5. What kind of camera and lens does he use and why is this important?
A Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses, no telephoto or zoom lenses. This is important because it means he must get very close when taking animal photos.
6. What is his reason for taking these photos?
To take photos of Eastern African wildlife and memorialize them before they all disappear by poachers.
7. What is his hope by taking these type of photos?
His hope is that his photos express the current treatment of African wildlife, and support the movement to save the African animals declining in population.
8. Find something he has to say about Africa, and post the quote on your blog.
"We are living through the antithesis of genesis right now. It took billions of years to reach a place of such wondrous diversity [Africa] , and then in just a few shockingly short years, an infinitesimal pinprick of time, to annihilate that." - Brandt
Reading this article, I felt glad for Nick Brandt finding his specific passion of shooting photos of Africa wild life, and using photography to support animal rights. Brandt's photos are really amazing when you take in the fact that he does not use a telephoto lens and had to get close to each elephant, cheetah, and lion he photographed. Brandt has many photos that feel dynamic and rare, each with a specific action happening, or instead of an action, a "portrait" of the animal.
2. Do a google image search for Nick Brandt, find your favorite photo and post it on your blog.
3. Describe it and tell me why its your favorite.
This photo feels so pleasant. The value of dark to light is really cool, and the elephant has this "glow" that makes this photo my favorite.
4. What rules of photography are evident in the photos you selected, be sure to explain the rule to me?
The Rule of Balance is the most evident rule in this photo. The ground is not lopsided, it is flat and leveled, and there's no border mergers that affect the photo.
Rule of Avoiding Mergers is also evident, sue to no border mergers cutting off the elephant's legs or tusks)
Do a google/wikipedia search for Nick Brandt
5. What kind of camera and lens does he use and why is this important?
A Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses, no telephoto or zoom lenses. This is important because it means he must get very close when taking animal photos.
6. What is his reason for taking these photos?
To take photos of Eastern African wildlife and memorialize them before they all disappear by poachers.
7. What is his hope by taking these type of photos?
His hope is that his photos express the current treatment of African wildlife, and support the movement to save the African animals declining in population.
8. Find something he has to say about Africa, and post the quote on your blog.
"We are living through the antithesis of genesis right now. It took billions of years to reach a place of such wondrous diversity [Africa] , and then in just a few shockingly short years, an infinitesimal pinprick of time, to annihilate that." - Brandt
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